Beyond the Classroom

As eye-opening and exciting as our classes are, your experiences outside the classroom
will be just as exhilarating.

Whether you’re participating in one of our many clubs, interning with a Berkshire
theater company, working at a biodynamic farm in France, or devising a tutorial under
the guidance of your favorite professor, the possibilities for intellectual exploration
are almost limitless.

Study Abroad and Partner Programs

We love having you here, but we also believe that your imagination and ideas are fed
by experiences that unfold beyond our campus. So we’ll encourage you to widen your
perspective in one of our study-abroad or partner programs. These encompass everything
from spending a semester studying literature at Oxford to starting an engineering
degree here and completing it at Dartmouth.

Visiting scholars, activists, and artists

A big part of living on our campus is talking and listening and wrestling with ideas
in public. So throughout the year we host globally recognized leaders in fields ranging
from dance to environmental law. You’ll connect with them in master classes, public
lectures, and small-group discussions. A lot of big names and top performers also
pass through the Berkshires—we’ll make sure you don’t miss them. And we want you on
the podium, too: our U.S.O. (Unnamed Student Organization) features weekly lectures
by students for students on topics from Greek politics to space exploration.

Student Groups and Organizations

Events and speaker series, clubs and concerts, dodgeball, debate, 3-D design—there’s
always something happening here, and you’ll be impressed by the passion Rockers bring
to their interests. If you don’t find an activity here you want to dive headlong into,
we’ll help you get one started.

Personalized Study and Tutorials

Our course catalog is designed to be intriguing, globally-minded and, to the best
of our abilities, encyclopedic. But it’s not the be-all and end-all. If you’re a BA student at Simon’s Rock, you can develop your own class topic for a group of students, or
put together an independent class where you work one-on-one with a professor. We want
you to follow your intellectual impulses and inclinations.

You can also propose an Extended Campus Project to pursue work with academic merit.
Teach English in Thailand, Ecuador, or Kenya. Volunteer at an orphanage in Honduras.
Study theater direction at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. Work on policy at
the Staley B. Keith Social Justice Center in Hudson, N.Y.

Internships

With an internship, you’ll get valuable experience—sometimes paid—at companies and
organizations in the fields that you’re drawn to. You’ll design your internship in
consultation with faculty and advisors, and we’ll work with you every step of the
way to make it happen.

Active Community Engagement Program (ACE)

Mens sana in corpore sano. Or to put it another way, we love you for your intellect, but you need to break a
sweat in multiple ways. Our ACE program can help you achieve the right balance with
activities in health and wellness, athletics and recreation, and community service.